Hardhat typescript compilation Errors

[johhonn]

After cloning master branch and installing with yarn I get the following errors when trying to run yarn test

scripts/deploy.ts:32:69 - error TS2345: Argument of type 'SignerWithAddress' is not assignable to parameter of type 'Signer'.
Property 'getFeeData' is missing in type 'SignerWithAddress' but required in type 'Signer'.

32 (await hre.ethers.getContractFactory('UFragments')).connect(deployer),
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node_modules/@ethersproject/abstract-signer/lib/index.d.ts:38:5
38 getFeeData(): Promise;
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'getFeeData' is declared here.
scripts/deploy.ts:45:11 - error TS2345: Argument of type 'SignerWithAddress' is not assignable to parameter of type 'Signer'.

45 deployer,
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scripts/deploy.ts:59:16 - error TS2345: Argument of type 'SignerWithAddress' is not assignable to parameter of type 'Signer'.

59 .connect(deployer)
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scripts/deploy.ts:100:9 - error TS2345: Argument of type 'SignerWithAddress' is not assignable to parameter of type 'Signer | Provider | undefined'.
Type 'SignerWithAddress' is not assignable to type 'Signer'.

100 deployer,
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scripts/deploy.ts:112:9 - error TS2345: Argument of type 'SignerWithAddress' is not assignable to parameter of type 'Signer | Provider | undefined'.
Type 'SignerWithAddress' is not assignable to type 'Signer'.

112 deployer,
~~~~~~~~
scripts/deploy.ts:149:16 - error TS2345: Argument of type 'SignerWithAddress' is not assignable to parameter of type 'Signer'.

149 .connect(deployer)
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[aalavandhan]

Hmm. Are you using node 16?

[adammmanka]

Got This working with @johhonn @aalavandhan not sure how... heres the steps to fix on both environments...
we rolled back the version to
node v12.20.2
yarn install
yarn add ethers
yarn hardhat
got us to a working stage.
still scratching our heads a bit i am going to try with newer node version.

[adammmanka]

Pulled fresh repos seems to be working with 16.13.0 node not sure how the bug happened. I had reproduced the same error on my environment as @johhonn unsure what was going on. its very odd likely lock conflicts for yarn or package we shared the same local repo. anything could have happened no issues rn